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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 09:38:23 -0600
From: Brian Ford <Brian.Ford@FlightSafety.com>
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Subject: Re: [1.7] Cygwin 1.7 misnames hardlinks
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On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> The same happens with all hardlinks to files used by the system.  The NT
> status code returned when trying to set the delete disposition flag is
> C0000121, STATUS_CANNOT_DELETE.  None of the Windows native methods to
> delete these hardlinks works.  I'm still puzzeled how to get rid of
> them. Does anybody knows how to do that?

Just a WAG, but disable Windows File Protection?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/222193

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Brian Ford
Staff Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
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